Past Canstruction New York Jurors
Over the years, the Canstruction New York Competition has been privileged to obtain the assistance of many great jurors. We are very grateful for their support and wish to thank them for their invaluable help in contributing to our continued success.
Below is the list of all the NY competition jurors for the last 27 years:
2019
- Chris Crowley, Food Editor/Food Writer, New York Magazine
- Roger Clark, Reporter, NY1
- Rachel Gurjan, Test Kitchen Manager + Food Editor, FeedFeed Brooklyn
- Jim Powers, AIA, Director of Operations & Business Development, Bohler Engineering
- Ronnette Riley, FAIA, LEED AP, Principal/Owner, Ronnette Riley Architect
- Margaret Zakarian, President, Zakarian Hospitality
From left to right: Chris Crowley, Ronnette Riley, Jim Powers, Rachel Gurjan, Margaret Zakarian, and Roger Clark
2018
- Michael Carron, Partner, TLM Group LLC
- Dan Churchill, Executive Chef, Charley St
- John Gering, AIA, Managing Partner, HLW
- Molly Heintz, Editor in Chief, Oculus Magazine
- Matthew Katakis, Owner, Butcher Bar and Pita Pan
- Peter Poulakakos, Founder, HPH Hospitality
- Katie Workman, Author and Blogger, Dinner Solved!; The Mom 100 Cookbook; The Mom 100 Blog
From left to right: Dan Churchill, Peter Poulakakos, John Gering, Matthew Katakis, Katie Workman, Michael Carron, and Molly Heintz
2017
Guy Geier, FAIA, FIIDA, LEED AP, Managing Principal, FXFOWLE
Gregory Boroff, Chief External Relations Officer, City Harvest
Michael Chernow, Chef/Owner, The Meatball Shop and Seamore’s
Ginger Gilden, IIDA, Past President, IIDA New York Chapter
John di Domenico, AIA, LEED AP, Founding Partner, Di Domenico + Partners
Justin Chapple, Culinary Director, FOOD & WINE, Time Inc.
2016
Joseph V. Amodio, Journalist and Television Writer
Nelly Koko-Konan, Pret Foundation Manager
Abraham Merchant, President and Chief Executive Officer of Merchant Hospitality Inc.
Chef François Payard, Chef, Restauranteur and Cookbook Author
Benjamin Prosky, American Institute of Architects NY Executive Director
2015
Madeleine Beckman, Journalist and Poet
Joy Habian, VP of Marketing, The Durst Organization
Chef Dean Kropp
Suzanne Mecs, Hon. AIA NYS, Managing Director, AIANY
Mimi S. Raygorodetsky, Associate, LANGAN
2014
Catherine McVay Hughes, Chair, Manhattan Community Board 1
Robert Simko, Co-Founder/Co-Editor/Publisher, The Broadsheet
Jason Cameron, Host of DIY Network’s Desperate Landscapes, Man Caves and Sledgehammer
Jordan Gruzen, FAIA, Director Emeritus, Gruzen Samton
Gavin McCloskey, Founder and President, nourishsnacks.com
November 2013
Andrew Breslau, The Alliance for Downtown New York
Tiffany Brooks, HGTV Star, Host of HGTV’S The Most Embarrassing Rooms in America
Bruce S. Fowle, FAIA, Senior Partner, FXFOWLE Architects
Ron Ben-Israel, Owner, Ben-Israel Cakes
Leah Suzanne Kaplan, Ridgewood Montessori School, former Chair Canstruction New York
Rosie Perez, Actor
February 2013 (postponed from 2012 due to Superstorm Sandy)
John DeSilvia, Host of DIY Network’s Rescue My Renovation
Carla Hall, Owner of Alchemy and Cohost of ABC’s The Chew
Frances Halsband, FAIA, Founding Partner, Kliment Halsband Architects
Thomas G. Loughlin, CAE, Executive Director, ASME
Marisa Zafran, Director of Public Relations & Marketing, Le Parker Meridien
2011
Michael Arad, AIA, LEED AP, Partner, Handel Architects, LLP, who designed the World Trade Center Site Memorial
Annie Block, an editor at Interior Design
Jeff Andrews, celebrated California-based interior designer
Mary-Jean Eastman, FAIA, MRAIC, IIDA, a founding partner of the international architecture and design firm, Perkins Eastman
Richard Hayden, FAIA RIBA, Managing Principal at Swanke Hayden Connell Architects
Ellie Krieger, New York Times bestselling author, James Beard Foundation award winner and host of The Food Network’s “Healthy Appetite”
Wade Burch, C.E.C., Executive Chef at SouthWest NY and first-place winner on the Food Network series “Chopped”
Chip Wade, Master Carpenter on HGTV’s “Curb Appeal: The Block” and HGTV’s “Designed to Sell.”
2010
Rocco Di Spirito, Celebrity Chef
Laura Heim, AIA, President AIA Queens and Principal of Heim Architect
Cynthia Kracauer, AIA, Managing Director of AIA New York
Lisa LaPorta, designer, HGTV show Designed to Sell
Bruce Melillo, husband of Canstruction founder, the late Cheri Melillo
Gail Simmons, Bravo’s show Top Chef: Just Desserts
2009
Burt Roslyn, AIA, President, AIA New York State
Adriana Trigiani, Author, Cooking With My Sisters
Ms E Bruce Barrett, VP of Architecture and Engineering, NYC School Construction Authority
Charles Baskett, Partner, Butler Rogers Baskett
Louie Dubin, LMD Worldwide LLC
Sherida Paulsen, FAIA, President, AIA New York City
Mark Goetz, Designer
John Gidding, Host of HGTV’s Designed To Sell
2008
Stephanie Gelb, AIA, Vice President, Planning & Design, Battery Park City Authority
Richard Haas, Painter
Michael F. Horodniceanu, P.E., President, MTA Capital Construction Co.
James Lunday, Host of HGTV's Rip & Renew
Gregg Pasquarelli, Partner, SHoP Architects, PC
Kristen Richards, Editor-in-Chief, Oculus & ArchNewsNow.com
Tim Tompkins, President, the Times Square Alliance
2007
Carol Rusche Bentel, FAIA, Bentel & Bentel Architects
Susan Henshaw Jones, President & Director, Museum of the City of New York
Robert J. Murray, PE, Murray Engineering, PC & President of SEAoNY
Anthony Vidler, Dean, Cooper Union School of Architecture
Alecia Wesner, Principal, George Kovacs Lighting
Barry Wood, R.A., b.wood Architects & HGTV's Hidden Potential
2006
Teman D. Evans, CEO, Dioscuri, LLC
Teran Evans, CFO Dioscuri, LLC
Peter Flack, P.C., Co-Founder, Flack + Kurtz
Ted Hammer, FAIA, Principal, HLW
Nadine M. Post, Editor-at-Large, Engineering News-Record
Mark E. Strauss, FAIA, President, AIA New York Chapter/FXFowle
Kenneth Wampler, Executive Director, Alpha Workshops
Doug Wilson, Douglas Wilson, Ltd.
2005
Stanley Tucci, Actor
Michael Arad, AIA, Partner, Handel Architects, LLP
Mario Batali, Chef, Author
Susan Chin , FAIA, Asst. Commissioner, NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, President, AIA, New York Chapter
Craig Dykers, MNAL, FRSA, Principal, Snohetta
Guy Nordenson, PE, SE, Partner, Guy Nordenson & Associates
Ronnette Filey, FAIA, Principal, Ronnette Riley Architect
2004
Stanley Tucci, Actor
Frederick Bell, FAIA, Executive Director, AIA, New York Chapter
Mark E. Ginsberg, AIA, President, AIA, New York Chapter
Elaine Griffin, Interior Designer
Patricia J. Lancaster, FAIA, Commissioner of Buildings, NYC
Frank J. Sciame, Jr., CEO, Sciame, Chairman, New York Building Congress
2003
Stanley Tucci, Actor
Steve Buscemi, Actor
Edie Falco, Actor
George H. Miller, FAIA, President, AIA-NY Chapter/Pei Cobb Freed & Partners
Stephen Saint-Onge, Designer
Bernardo Fort-Brescia, FAIA, Arquitectonica
John Turturro, Actor
2002
Stanley Tucci, Actor
Henry N. Cobb, FAIA, Pei Cobb Freed & Partners
Randolph R. Croxton, FAIA, Croxton Collaborative Architect, PC
Edie Falco, Actor
Mark Mayfield, Editor in Chief, House Beautiful
Julianne Moore, Actor
Enrique Norten, TEN Arquitectos
Aidan Quinn, Actor
2001
Stanley Tucci, Actor/Director/Producer
Cindy Allen, Editor-in-Chief, Interior Design
Hugh Hardy, FAIA, Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates, LLP
Margaret Helfand, FAIA, President, AIA-NY Chapter/Helfand Myerberg & Guggenheimer
Elaine Shusterman, Publisher, Architectural Record
Stephanie Stokes, Interior Designer
2000
Steve Buscemi, Actor
Chris Grabenstein, Senior Partner, Young & Rubicam, Inc.
Lee Harris Pomeroy, FAIA, Lee Harris Pomeroy Associates, PC
Peter Slatin, Editor-in-Chief, GRID
Michael Harris Spector, FAIA, The Spector Group
Donna Warner, Editor-in-Chief, Metropolitan Home
1999
Walter A. Hunt, Jr., AIA, President, AIA-NY Chapter/Managing Principal,Gensler
Deborah Berke, AIA, Principal, Deborah Berke Architect, PC
Rocco DiSpirito, Executive Chef, Union Pacific
Julie Lasky, Editor-In-Chief, Interiors
David Rockwell, Rockwell Group
1998
Stanley Tucci, Actor
J. Max Bond, Jr. FAIA, Davis Brody Bond
Bob Lape, WCBS Restaurant Critic, Crains
Adam D. Tihany, AIA, Adam Tihany International Ltd.
Billie Tsien, AIA, Tod Williams Billie Tsien and Associates
Tod Williams, FAIA, Tod Williams Billie Tsien and Associates
Roger Yee, Editor-in-Chief, Contract Design
1997
Stanley Tucci, Actor
Scott Buxbaum, Juror-in-Training, 1996 National LEGO Champion Builder
Paul Goldberger, The New Yorker & The New York Times
Charles Gwathmey, FAIA, Gwathmey, Siegel and Associates Architects
Robert Ivy, FAIA, Editor-in-Chief, Architecture
Matthew Kenney, Matthew's
Nicole Miller, Fashion Designer
Blaine Trump, Philanthropist
1996
Stanley Tucci, Actor
Sandra Bloodworth, Director, Art For Transit, MTA
Todd Dalland, FAIA, FTL
Robert Hillier, FAIA, The Hillier Group
Julie Iovine, Home Section, The New York Times
Lenore Lucey, FAIA, VP, Business Development, Lehrer McGovern Bovis
Mayer Rus, Editor-in-Chief, Interior Design
Ysrael A. Seinuk, PE, FASCE, Ysrael A. Seinuk, PC
1995
John F. Kennedy, Jr.
Laurie Beckelman, Executive Director, New York Shakespeare Festival
Dominique Browning, Editor-In-Chief, House & Garden
Walter Chatham, President, The Architectural League of New York
Bill Evans, Meterologist, WABC-TV
Paul Goldberger, Architecture Critic, The New Yorker & The New York Times
Danny Meyer, Owner, Union Square Café, Gramercy Tavern
Jeff Peterson, Associate Publisher, Architectural Digest
1994
John F. Kennedy, Jr.
Kurt Andersen, Editor-in-Chief, New York Magazine
Louis Oliver Gropp, Editor-in-Chief, House Beautiful
Roseanne Haggerty, Executive Director, Common Ground Community of Times Square
Mel Hammock, President, Mel Hammock & Co.
Joseph B. Rose, Chairman, City Planning Commission, NYC
Edwin Schlossberg, Edwin Schlossberg, Inc.
Robert A. M. Stern, FAIA, Robert A.M. Stern Architects
1993
Lucy Cabrera, Executive Director, FOOD FOR SURVIVAL
Ruth Messinger, Manhattan Borough President
Terence Riley, Director of Architecture & Design, The Museum of Modern Art
Suzanne Stephens, Architecture Critic, Editor, Oculus
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